• Scribbd@feddit.nl
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      6 months ago

      I can see it. There are a few tropes that come to mind:

      • Robot is unique and alone
      • Robots outlive their creators/creating civilization
      • Robots discarded after their usefulness expired

      And looking into the etymology of orphan makes it even clearer. Robots are often depicted as being dereft of rights, feelings etc.

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        6 months ago

        It’s more because it comes from slave (arbeiten is also related), and both slaves and orphans deal with status changes, but that’s a lot more similarities than I had :)